The Go-Between
A European Literature, Historical, British Literature book. El pasado es un pas extranjero: all las cosas se hacen de manera...
L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with an introduction and notes by Douglas Brooks-Davies in Penguin Modern Classics.'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there'When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall. He becomes drawn deeper and deeper into their dangerous game of deceit and desire, until his role brings him to a shocking and premature revelation. The haunting story of a young boy's awakening into the secrets of the adult world, The Go-Between is also an unforgettable evocation...
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- Pages: 293 pages
- ISBN: 9780141187785 / 141187786
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El pasado es un pas extranjero: all las cosas se hacen de manera distinta. L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between // Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster. L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between // Try now, try now, it isn't too late'...Excitement, like hysteria, bubbled up in me from a hundred unsealed springs. If it isn't too late, I thought confusedly, neither it is too early: I haven't much time left to spoil. It was the last flicker of instinct of self-preservation which had failed me so signally at Brandham Hall. L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between //
I bought this book because I was intrigued by its first line: "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. It certainly is an intriguing line, but so much more could have been done with the message than is done here. The story is told by a sixty-two year old man, Leo Colston. He writes of his experiences in the... Easily now one of my favorite novels. Hartley's ability to write children is amazing. This is a must-read, heartbreakingly good. Upon second reading, this is definitely a five star book for me. The first great thing about it is that Hartley offers some really wonderful descriptions of the natural world. The novel is set at an English country house in the summer of 1900, a record heatwave, and the atmosphere is filled with wheat fields, swimming holes, and cricket...
